Films with: Schnell, Lisa Jane

Conversation with author Ta-Nehisi Coates

Journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates reads from his work and then takes questions from University of Vermont (UVM) Distinguished Professor and poet Major Jackson, Department of English, and from audience members. Coates's award-winning nonfiction work, Between the World and Me, was recently chosen as the required First-Year-Read for new students at UVM.

DVD 13211

Sixth extinction

DVD 11891

Spirit catches you and you fall down

As part of the UVM First Year Summer Read Program at the Honors College, Department of Student Life, University of Vermont, writer Anne Fadiman discusses her work 'The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.'

DVD 11268